Leonard Sanders

The second son of Sander Sanders and Esther Morpurgo, Leonard Sanders, was born on 14 May 1904 in Amsterdam. Like his father Sander and his brother Willem, Leonard eventually also became a tailor by profession. However, before that Leonard had already been employed as a warehouse clerk, as a diamond cutter and as a traveler. 

On 27 January 1919, Leonard was admitted as an apprentice diamond cutter…

The so-called Sterbebücher of Auschwitz includes nearly 69.000 official certificates of death, made out in the camp between July 1941 and December 1943.

According to the "Sterbebücher" (death records) of Auschwitz, Leonard Sanders was murdered there on 29 December 1942. This date differs from the official date of death of 28 February 1943, as determined by the Dutch Ministry of Justice after the war. For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl, list only the dates of death, as published at the time in the "Nederlandse Staatscourant" (Dutch Go…

GENERAL REMARKS REGARDING THE DEPORTATION TRANSPORTS IN THE SO-CALLED COSEL PERIOD (28 AUGUST TO 12 DECEMBER 1942).

The deportation period to be discussed runs from 28 August to 12 December 1942, and is called the "Cosel period", because at that time a number of transports departing from the Netherlands (and also from France and Belgium) were not received in their entirety. transferred to Auschwit…